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HARVESTER. No. 329,158. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,158, dated October 27, 1885.

Application tiled December 16, 1884. Serial No. 150,509.

ATo all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN B. GEMMILL, of Red Bluff, in the county of Tehama, in the State of California, a citizen of the United States of America, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harvesters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in harvesters, and has especial relation to new and useful means for giving the gavels free access from the carrier through the elevators, the object being to provide a means for sustaining the reel at that end of the carriage nearest to the receiving end of the elevator, in order that the cut grain may pass up the elevator without being stopped in its course.

It so happens in machines of common construction of that class of harvesters carrying an endless apron or similar means for delivering the gavels to the elevator, set at the side of the carriage, that when the machine encounters lodged grain or very heavy grain the lodged grain will have to be skipped, and the machine run high on the heavy grain, otherwise the clogged or heavy gavels lodge in the elevator, against a horizontal bar extended across the elevator and carrying the bearing of the reel. It is the object of my improvements to so construct and arrange this horizontal bar that it shall not be an impediment to the Afree passage of the gavels up the elevator under any circumstances.

I have hereinbelow fully described my invention, and have specilically stated the nov- .elty in the claims made hereto, and I have also clearly demonstrated the construction in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein- Figure l is a perspective view of the frame of a harvester carriage having my improvement attached, and Fig. 2 is a detail of the rod or arm separated from the machine.

The letter A represents a standard rigidly secured to the side timbers of the frame of the carriage of the harvester, and of such height as to serve the purpose of sustaining the rear end of the reel-bar above the elevator-trough at any desired elevation. This post is properly braced to render it rm, and is provided with means such as are now in use for holding (No model.)

the end of the reel-supporting bar in any desired position of elevation.

The letter C represents a standard rigidly secured in the frame of the carriage at or near the rear lower corner of the elevator-trough, it being identical with the standard to the top of which the bail of the elevator is commonly secured. This standard is properly braced, substantially as shown.

The letter C represents my improved reelsupporting rod, consisting of the bar or rod a and the angular reel-supporting arm b. This angular reel-supporting arm is formed in one piece, and consists of two horizontal arms, c c', connected by the Vertical arm d, the arm c being provided with means for securing it firmly and durably to the end of the horizontal or main bar a, and the horizontal arm o being formed or provided with a bearing for the journal of the reel, and the angles being provided with braces. This horizontal bar a, with the angular reel-supporting arm secured thereto, is pivotally attached to the standard G at such a height that a horizontal position of the bar will bring the horizontal portion c of the angular reel-supporting arm at the same horizontal height as the reel rod or bar D at the point of support of the journal of the reel at the other end of the reel. This sets the reel-bearings on the same line, and necessarily puts the horizontal bar a at such height above the elevator that the gavels can be carried up the trough without being impeded or without any liability to lodge against the bar. The rear end of the bar C is adjustably secured to the standard A, in order that the reel may be set at any height desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with asu pporting-standard and an elevator-trough of a harvester, a horizont-al reel-supporting bar pivotally secured to the supporting-standard and having its rear end adj ustably secured to a standard xed in the frame of the carriage, and an angular reel-supporting arm rigidly secured to its free end and adapted to carry the journal of the reel,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The reel-supporting barherein described, roo

adapted to'be applied to the elevator side of ytal arm c', provided with bearings for the jour- 1o the harvester, and consisting of the bar a, denal of the reel, substantially as described. pending vertical arm d, and horizontal arm c', In Witness whereof I have hereunto subsubstantially as described, and for the purpose scribed my name in the presence of two attest- 5 set forth. ing Witnesses.

3. The reel-supporting arm herein described,

consisting of the arm c, provided with means Attest: for securing it to the end of the reel-support- S. P. FREEMAN, ingbar, the depending arm d, and the horizon- J. S. DAVENPORT.

JOHN B. GEMMILL. 

